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This is the home of maximally-localised Wannier functions (MLWFs) and Wannier90, the computer program that calculates them. Wannier90 is released under the GNU General Public License.

Latest News

21 JUL 2008

Technical notes on the calculation of MLWF within the LAPW formalism are now available, courtesy of Prof. Michel Posternak [PDF]

16 APR 2008

A paper describing Wannier90 is now available:

Wannier90: A Tool for Obtaining Maximally-Localised Wannier Functions
A. A. Mostofi, J. R. Yates, Y.-S. Lee, I. Souza, D. Vanderbilt and N. Marzari
Comput. Phys. Commun. 178, 685 (2008) [ONLINE JOURNAL]

21 DEC 2007

Wannier90 (v1.1) is now available for download here.

The PWscf interface to Wannier90 may be downloaded here.

7 AUG 2007

A paper describing Wannier90 is now available on cond-mat: see here.

7 JUL 2007

Lyon, 27-29 June 2007 A successful CECAM/Psi-k workshop, entitled "Maximally-Localized Wannier Functions: Concepts, Applications, and Beyond", was held in Lyon, 27-29 June 2007. The webpage can be found here; and a photo gallery (courtesy of Oleg Yazyev) is posted here.

As part of the workshop, a one-day tutorial on Wannier90 was also held: see here for more details.

4 DEC 2006

Wannier90 (v1.0.2) is now available for download here.

17 MAY 2006

Wannier90 (v1.0.1) is released.

30 APR 2006

Wannier90 (v1.0) is released.

6 MAR 2006

Expected release of Wannier90: 30th April 2006.

12 FEB 2006

Website has gone online.